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As some of you are aware, the next tentative ANO election round is less then 3 weeks out, where the whole process takes roughly one month.
Some have raised some question about whether we have done enough "marketing" to attract new ANOs to the protocol, others feel that potential ANOs are already here and should feel the need and invest to become an ANO.

The process is tentatively planned for april 1st (see timeline screenshot). My personal opinion is that we should get the discussion going for the round after that to make sure we better market the protocol to the outside world to attract more parties/talent, but that it is too late now beside some social media posts to have something like that worked out for this round.

The main question is, should we leave the timeline as is, adjust it slightly to the right (few days, up to 2 weeks) or move it completely to the right after next grant rounds?

I would also like us to talk about, whether we want to attract additional ANOs outside of the organizations that already know about Factom at this stage? And if so ho we want to go about it. New talent in the ecosystem is important obviously, but do we expect to come from ANOs only or are there other means as well?

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My personal opinion is that we should hold it at the tentative date. We have changes to the process incoming based on the working group. We have potential ANOs on current testnet. Any timeline is too short IMO to have proper new blood through social media, marketing, PR exposure anyway (even the June timeframe).

So my suggestion is to keep it as is, but make sure we start working ASAP on creating a strategy to attract new potential ANOs to the ecosystem. Ideally we have that discussion as part of a larger discussion/strategy to attract new talent to our ecosystem outside of ANOs as well (developers, community building etc)

Hi Niels thank you for this. Ideally we would hold the current timing but I would not object to a 2 week delay in order to finalise the new 60:40 voting process and do some basic testing of it. I don't think we should delay any more than that.

Hi Anton,
There is a Working Group (or Research Group) which is currently focused on the election process but NOT the announcement process. This group comprises Julian, NicR and myself. We will shortly post a ratification discussion for the new election process as a once off for this next round. Naturally there is some overlap here and, if you remember I shared a proposed web text to potentially serve as an introduction to new applicants using the new process via Discord. We would be very happy to link up but do need to ensure that once an election is started we can conduct it as we need to. Happy to answer any questions you have on the subject.

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